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Apocalypse from WWF: All living beings on Earth become extinct

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So what do these indicators from the new version of Living Planet tell us about terrestrial biodiversity? In fact, nothing good. Studies have shown that the population of living organisms has decreased by 30% since 1970. Particularly adversely affected are tropical species: their populations have decreased by 60% in less than 40 years.

So what do these indicators from the new version of Living Planet tell us about terrestrial biodiversity? In fact, nothing good. Studies have shown that the population of living organisms has decreased by 30% since 1970. Particularly adversely affected are tropical species: their populations have decreased by 60% in less than 40 years.
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Why does the number of species shrink so rapidly? Scientists primarily see this as a consequence of uncontrolled growth of the human population and expansion of their business activities. First, according to the researchers, leads to reduced food resources, while the second leads to the fact that they are no longer renewed.

Depletion of resources has already been noted in some areas, such as the depletion of cod populations off the coast of Newfoundland in the 1980s. When this happens, people usually move to new habitats of food sources, to new places of fishing or forest clearance for agriculture. Yet, at the present level of consumption, these resources will run out fast, and many ecosystems would collapse before they are used, the report states.

In addition, the growth of human population has led to the situation when we use the planet's resources 1.5 times faster than they renew. If humanity continues in the same spirit, by 2030 we will need the equivalent of two planets.
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t turns out that the majority of energy resources are spent by a very small part of humanity, which, incidentally, is not strongly involved in the growth of world population (it has been long known that indigenous people of the developed countries of Europe, Asia and America do not breed very actively). Therefore, it is at the very least erroneous to build a forecast for the depletion of energy resources based on the growth of human population.

The report has a few other areas that are weak from a scientific point of view. For example, the area dealing with the increase of greenhouse gases emission, whose harmfulness for the planet, to put it mildly, is very doubtful. One gets the impression that this report is not meant to find solutions in the environmental sector but pursues other objectives.
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Gloomy forecasts of WWF should not cause fear because the impressive numbers cited in the report communicate no more than wrongly conducted studies.

Anton Evseev
Pravda.Ru

... hey, they may be wrong ...
... but the "fact" that with "no oil" ...
... earth can only sustain 500 millions, say the optimistic ...
... (the "realist" say hundred millions) ...
... should tell something is wrong somewhere ...
... but I guess mr anton lives in cleveland next door to godfinger ...
:)